In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, a journalist at the Tageblatt from the early 1960s onwards and General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, describes the circumstances surrounding the LSAP’s participation in the government led by Gaston Thorn from 1974 to 1979. Robert Goebbels particularly looks at the social and societal reforms introduced by this government, the first since the Second World War not to include members of the Christian Social Party (CSV).